AVG Television comes on air after trial run

A new pay-television network by Vietnam’s Audio Visual Global was officially put into operation on the 11th November after a year of on-air testing, Vietnam News reports.
AVG network supplies TV programmes on Digital Terrestrial Television using the DVB-T standard and direct-to-home technologies. Apart from VTV and international channels, AVG will broadcast other channels such as the Vietnam News Agency’s VNews.
AVG is also co-operating with other television stations in programme production.
“The broadcast network of AVG assures the best quality for viewers,” AVG Chairman Pham Nhât Vu was quoted by Le Courier.
Vietnam has about a dozen pay-TV providers, which employ cable, Internet, digital satellite or a combination of DTT and satellite services.
Source: Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
Item added: 21st November 2011